murgatroid
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- Nov 5, 2018
I think your spot on about Susan's deluded/pop culture infused perception about what schizophrenia is.Visual hallucinations actual schizophrenics report are somewhat uncommon and usually quite brief and simple. Examples are shadows, bugs, spiders, seeing a fleeting glimpse of someone/something, powder in the air or on objects they think is poison, imagining angry or grotesque looks from people they encounter, etc... are common reported visual hallucinations. Susan encourages Jani to walk around like she was Snow White talking to imaginary animal friends that she encouraged her to give detailed descriptions of.
Susan seems to mix up schizophrenia with descriptions of LSD trips. (The whole insane rant she posted about the death of Eric Claptons son jumping out a window and “thinking you can fly” equals schizophrenia is actually old anti-LSD propaganda that was highly publicized in the early 1970s. It circulated at the right time to make a big impression on Susan as a kid. It stemmed from a story about the death Diane Linkletter (daughter of celebrity Art Linkletter) falling out a window in Hollywood after taking LSD. Every middle class parent in the USA told their kid the story for years to scare them away from taking acid.)
Also, one of my favorite bits about that Anti-LSD propaganda.